The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1887-11-08
CONCORD AND DISCORD.
'Or. Talmage's Sermon Yester-
day Morning
EAT THE BROOKLYN TABERNACLE

sThe Brooklyn tabernacle is the con-
Eregational singing. Today, after the open-
ahg song, in which all the thousands heartily
participated, Professor Browne gave on the Or
gan ocherzo, opus 6r, by Mendelssohn The
esev' t. Dewitt Talmage, d. D., expounded
q chapter In the first book of Samuel, where
soaul, possessed OF an evil spirit, threw a iave-
am at David, who was playing on the harp be-
gore him, thus showing that the evil spirit does
mot like sacred music. The subject of
que sermon was Concord and Dis
cord' and the text was from job
Echapter xxxviii, V. and Z. "Who laid the
Ecorner-stone thereof: when the morning stars
sang together?" Dr. Talmage said:
we have all seen the ceremony at the LAYING
81 the cornerstone of church, asylum or Ma
sonic temple. Into the hollow of the stone
We're placed scrolls of history and important
documents to be suggestive if, one or two
Hundred years after, the building should be
destroyed by fire or torn down. We remember
iShe silver trowel or iron hammer that smote
lehe square piece of granite into sanctity. We
Eremember some venerable man who presided,
E&ielding the trowel or hammer We remem
ger, also, the music as the choir stood on the
scattered stones and timber of the building
about to be constructed. The leaves of the
notebooks fluttered in the wind, and were
Eurned over with great rustling, and we re-
fnember how the bass, baritone, tenor, con-
Sraito and soprano voices commingled. They
mad Tor many days been rehearsing the special
programme, that it might be worthy of the
cornerstone laying.
LII my text the poet of w calls us to gran
der ceremony-the laying of the foundation of
shis great temple Of a world. The cornerstone
was block of hight and the trowel was of
PEDESTAL crystal. All about and on the embanll-
n al CAC IL ~
l1nrolling their librettos of overture, and other
worlds capped shining cymbals while the GER
Iemony went on, and God, the architect by
stroke OF light after stroke Of light dedicated
Ehls great cathedral of world with noun
Hains for pillars, and sky for frescoed ceiling
and towering fields for floor, and sunrise and
midnight aurora for upholstery. "Who laid
CHE cornerstone thereof; when the morning
EtarS sang together?'
The fact is that the whole universe was a
complete cadence, an unbroken dithyramb a
Fnusical portfolio. The great sheet of immen-
5ity had been spread cut, and written on it
were the stars, the smaller of them minims,
She larger OF them sustained notes. The me-
teors marked the StaCcato passages, the whole
heavens gamut, with all sounds, intonations
and modulations the space between the worlds
% musical interval, trembling of stellar light a
Muaver, the thunder a base clef, the wind
among trees a treble clef. That is the way
SOD made all things, perfect harmony.
/ But one day & harp-string snapped in the
great orchestra. One day voice sounded out
sDf tune. One day discord harsh and terrif-
SIC, grated upon the glorious antphone 1t
was the sin that made the dissonance and that
'2arsh discord has been sounding through the
centuries. All the work Of Christians, and
Sphilanthropists, and reformers of all ares is
70 stop that discord and get all things back into
She perfect harmony which was heard at the
laying of the cornerstone, when the morning
stars sang together. Before get through if |
am divinely helped will make it plain that
sin is liSQor6 and riUb+aoucuacr iu bo,.,
That things in general are out of tune is as
plain as to musicians ear is the unhappy clash
OF clarionet and bassoon in an orchestral rem
Clering.
The worlds health out of tune Weak
lung and the atmosphere in collision, disor-
dered eye and monday light in quarrel
rheumatic limb and damp weather in struggle
leuralgias, and pneumonias, and consump-
lions, and epilepsies in focks swoop upon
neighborhoodS and cities. Where you find one
person with sound throat, and keen eyesight
and alert ear. and easy respiration, and regular
pulsation, and supple limb, and primo diges-
Zion, and steady nerves, you find hundred
gvho have to be very careful because this, or
Ehat, or the other physical function is disor-
Gered
The human intellect out of tone: The iudg-
gnent wrongly swerved, or the memory leakv,
Or the will weak, or the temper inhamable,
and the we'll balanced mind exceptional Do
Enestic life out of tune: Only here and there
conjugal outbreak of incompatibility of temper
ftlfrOuSH tIIS ulNOGCS COURTS OF IL ullal outbreak
hbout fathers will through the surrogate's
Court, or a case of wife-beating or husband
&oisoning through the criminal courts, but
thousands of families with June outside and
january within.
( Society out Of tune: Labor and capital, their
hands on each others throat. Spirit OF caste
Excepting those down in the social scale in a
Struggle to get up, and putting those who are
up in anxiety lest they have to come down. No
STonder the old pianoforte of society is all out
bf tune, when hypocrisy, and lying, and sub
Eerfuge, and double dealing, and sycophancy,
ahd charlatanism, and revenge have for six
Thousand years been banging away at the keys
and stamping the pedals.
+ On all sides there is a perpetual shipwreck of
harmonies. Nations in discord: Without real
szing it so wrong is the feeling of nation for
nation that the symbols chosen are fierce and
obstructive. In this country, where our skies
hre full of robins, and doves, and morning
Marks, we have our national symbol, the fierce
and filthy eagle, as immoral bird as can be c
found in all the pathological catalogues. In
Great Britain, where they have lambs and fall
I'm Russia, where from between her
Frozen north and blooming south
all kindly beasts dwell, they choose
the growing bear; and in the worlds heraldry
b favorte figure is the dragon, which is a
Winged serpent ferocous and beautiful. And
ko fond is the world of contention that we
Climb out through the heavens and baptize one
Of the other planets with the spirit Of battle,
give to the eighth sign of the zodiac the name
Of the scorpion, a creature which is chiefly cele-
Grated for its deadly sting. But, after all,
khese symbols are expressive of the way ma
Mon feels toward nation. Discord wide as the
continent and bridging the seas. I suppose
You have noticed how warmly in love
Hry goods stores are with other
Ary goods stores and how highly grocery men
khink of the sugars of the grocery men on the
same block. And in what a eulogistic way sal
Eopathic and homeopathic doctors speak Of
Bach other, and how ministers will sometimes
but ministers on that beautiful cooking instru-
snent which the English call a spit, an iron
Roller with spikes on it, and turned by crank
before hot fire. and then if the minister be-
ing roasted cries out against it, the men who
Are turning him say: flush, brother! we are
Burning this spit for the glory of God and the
Rood Of your soul, and you must be quiet while
Ee-cose the service with:
"Best be the tie that binds
Our hearts in Christian love"
The earth Is diametered and circumference
tEith discord, and the music that was rendered
1t the laying Of the worlds corner stone, when
Ehe morning stars sang together, is not heard
now and though here and there, from this and
Chat part of society, and from this and that
part of the earth, there comes up a thrilling